Because he is a superior player. Just ask anyone who has even the slightest idea of football and is not member of this forum.
Look, our academy is lovely and great and all that, but the vast majority of the players it produces will never be anywhere near good enough. Xavi, Inesta, Messi, Cesc, Pique, Puyol et al are just a small minority (make that absolutely tiny) of canteranos that were good enough to make it.
I would like to see Thiago start more Liga games, now that it is over, but I really can't see him being a starter for Barca.
trolling aside, I don't believe Thiago is a better player than Cesc. So in that Cesc took his minutes because Cesc is a better player, I agree. Like I said in my previous two posts, I'm not here to diss Cesc.
HOWEVER
my issue is this notion that player "X" is young/unproven/injured/not as cool as player "Y", so rather than letting these players develop lets go spend a few million Euros on this player "Y" and bring him in and player "X" will either adapt or he can piss off. The notion that some people in here want to get rid of Pedro for Neymar annoys me than all of the bullshit put together in this forum and that's part of the reason why I'm so anti-Cesc or anti-Neymar. Obviously we don't know that Thiago will turn out to be as good as Cesc, but if he never gets the chance what the hell is point of developing him? so that he can watch another person come in and take his minutes and then bounce to Arsenal? Thiago could have been given this year to figure himself out. No one is saying he had to become Cesc, but he could have become Thiago. He would have had the minutes. He would have had the opportunity. At the end of the year, we would know if Cesc is required or not. if Cesc was not required, we could have waited for 2 or 3 more years and then gotten him for dirt cheap because, really, where else was Cesc going to go? He was always coming to Barça. by then Thiago is whatever Thiago can be, Iniesta is just 30 and Xavi is ready to be rotated out. what was 2 or 3 more years? or if we have to buy him in July, what was 1 more year? Now we have 3 players with similar roles Iniesta, Thiago, and Cesc and we can't play them all at the same time when the team really required another CB.
I dunno ... I'm just a firm believe in fiscal responsibility and letting players develop before splurging cash. maybe I'll be eating my words in the QFs and SFs and Finals (fingers crossed) of the CL. maybe I'll be sad because I was right.
anyway I'm done w/ this Cesc or Neymar conversations. I've typed what I had to type. The football gods protect Barça.
